Moodlerooms Features & Services WHAT IS MOODLEROOMS Moodlerooms features and services, are here to work with you and for you. We have it all. From hosting, implementation, support, training, course conversion, and customise to our teaching, learning and administration features, Moodlerooms is ready to work for you. We have the time and the resources to work with you to decide what matters most to your learning program and to apply it. This way, you can allocate your time and resources to other areas of your program- like teaching and learning. With Moodle at its core, Moodlerooms is flexible, scalable and reliable enough to support your users, your plug-ins, your courses, your content, your needs and you. HOSTING LMS Hosting Services We ve been on the cloud for five years and have loved every minute of it. You will too since it means that our clients receive the best hosting service available. Let us fill you in on why Moodlerooms LMS hosting is so great... you ll always have the resources you need, you don t have to worry about hardware limits, and you can add storage and users as often as you need to. As a Moodle partner, we receive priority access to security patches, so we can make sure your site is stable and secure before the patches are released to the public. We also do our own quality assurance testing to make sure your site is secure. Our LMS hosting architecture is secure and your data is, too. We run vulnerability testing to discover and fix any weaknesses/threats to your site. We ve also secured your system with password protection, virus scanning, authentication against external sources and roles-based access; you ll have more protection than you could ever hope for. "We had poor communication with our previous LMS and host, so we really needed a company to host our Moodle LMS that would help us and had a high level of communication. By using Moodlerooms managed open-source solution, we have someone to provide support to us if we need it. If there is an error or something that we have difficulty correcting, we can simply open a support ticket with Moodlerooms and they will investigate and solve the issue for us. If we were self-hosting the application, we would be responsible for doing this on our own. - Bradley Mitchell LMS Administrator & elearning PD Coordinator, South Carolina Department of Education, Office of elearning
IMPLEMENTATION Whether you re already a Moodle expert or new to e-learning, we re here to make sure your site is configured to meet your needs. There are a few different implementation package options for you to choose from. Some of you may be more experienced with Moodle and Moodlerooms, while others need more guidance; either way, there s a package that s right for you. QUICKSTART IMPLEMENTATION PACKAGE If you consider yourself a Moodle expert, this is the package for you. We will help you get your site up and running and introduce you to Moodlerooms specific features, so you can configure the most commonly requested and used Moodlerooms capabilities. FOUNDATIONS IMPLEMENTATION PACKAGE The foundations implementation package will give you access to resources and training to help you configure valuable Moodlerooms components, integrations and a fully branded site. You ll have several specialised guidance sessions and two Q&A sessions with a Moodlerooms implementation expert to answer any questions you may have as you configure your site. SMARTSTART IMPLEMENTATION PACKAGE Our SmartStart implementation package provides you with resources, training and personal guidance you need so you can deploy a comprehensive, integrated and branded Moodlerooms site. This level of implementation provides several specialised guidance sessions (two of which are on topics of your choice) and three Q&A sessions. ENTERPRISE IMPLEMENTATION PACKAGE This package is for complex projects and is highly consultative. We ll provide resources; training and personal guidance to make sure your site is successfully deployed. You ll receive two face-toface meetings, several specialised guidance sessions (two of which are on topics of your choice) and three Q&A sessions so you feel confident and can configure the best site possible. Moodlerooms does an excellent job building people s confidence. This is important because among the things that our people are tired of [is] the tradition of poor services they received from their current provider. Knowing that they are being taken care of is almost as important as the tools themselves. - Robert Johnson, Ph.D. Executive Director, LCTCSOnline COURSE CONVERSION We know that you might have existing courses and content from previous online learning systems; good thing we have expertise in course conversion and migration. When converting your courses, you can choose from a few conversion formats, including selfconversion and batch conversions. After all, we want you to do what s best for you. SELF-CONVERSION You can convert your content quickly and accurately. Our Blackboard, Desire2Learn, WebCT and ANGEL converter is designed to specifically to speed up the transition process. Your staff can batch convert an unlimited number of courses to Moodlerooms at any time. We ll provide a consultative session on this process so your self-conversion goes smoothly. Following your conversion, courses will be ready for quality assurance and clean up by your instructors or course designers.
BATCH CONVERSION SERVICES So, if you re the type that has the instructional design side of things covered but might need some extra hands on deck for the actual conversion process, we can perform batch conversions for you or work with your team to convert just a select number of courses. Then, your team can focus on quality assurance and clean up. If you re coming from Blackboard CE or Vista, this is the option for you. CUSTOMISATION We have the ability to extend your Moodlerooms instance to meet your unique requirements, as long as it s a safe move for the health of your site. We welcome customisation requests, but they must go through a customisation review process before they are accepted. We want to make sure what you re requesting is realistic and healthy for your site. Take a look at the following customisation process: Initial Discovery Stage Our expert customisation consultants work with you to evaluate your needs to provide an initial Vision and Scope (V&S) for the project. Specification Stage We build the V&S into a specifications document to guide development, testing and documentation. Development Stage We ll provide progress reports and ongoing status meetings while development work is being done. This way, we know the project remains on track with what you re looking for. Testing Stage We apply a formal quality assurance (QA) process, including automated unit testing and use case testing. We can also work with your own QA staff to provide multi-stage QA and user acceptance testing reports. Documentation Stage We build clear "how-to" guides for the new tools we build. Release Stage We manage releases of the custom, tested code so the client knows what version of both Moodle and custom tools their users are on. After the custom tools have been released, we provide ongoing code maintenance and technical support services. THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT: We offer a Client Contributor Program to encourage social development by way of community contribution. When you contribute a new module or plug-in that passes through our testing, users and developers from across the globe benefit with new integrations. Find out more Contact us Because Moodle is an open source product, it was important to find an open and flexible learning management services provider that was willing to collaborate with the CSU. Moodlerooms services provide the scalability, integration experience and training program we need plus their willingness to work with the CSU system made them the logical choice to meet our Moodle needs. - Kathy Fernandes Director of CSU LMS Initiatives, California State University, Office of the Chancellor
TEACHING FEATURES With interactive instructional features and timesaving administrative tools, you can be a more effective and engaging teacher. Moodlerooms Grader: Moodlerooms grader allows you to grade individual assignments, provide comments, and move to the next piece submitted. It also allows you to use advanced grading methods such as checklists and rubrics to set expectations for students on specific assignments. Advanced Forums: You can create anonymous forums, sort posts in a forum by individual student, identify posts that need review and you can receive email postings related to single topics rather than an entire forum. Your posts are displayed differently than student posts you can send a private reply to a post that can only be seen by the student that made the original post. You can also grade the post while viewing it, so you can refer back to the content as needed. Comparison Reports: You can view reports on participant summaries, compare participants in a course or compare activities in a course to see how your students are performing and what methods are most effective. Webcam: You can easily capture an audio or video recording with your computer s built in webcam and post it anywhere in Moodlerooms where you can type a message to communicate and engage. Personalised Learning Designer: Accelerate or remediate learning based on a student s experience in a course. Your students will get the individualised attention they need and you ll still be able to do everything else on your plate. LEARNING FEATURES As a student or employee, you ll have the ability to learn the material at hand and communicate with peers and instructors with Moodlerooms. Advanced Grading Methods: With checklist and rubric advanced grading methods, you can reference criteria that your professor has created for the assignment, to ensure you are meeting their requirements. Advanced Forums: Forums are a great way to earn participation, express your ideas and have discussions with classmates and teachers. With anonymous forums, you can make anonymous posts to a forum while still getting credit. This really makes the forum all about the topic at hand. Your posts will also show up in a different color than your instructor, so you can prioritise posts based on importance. Webcam: You can easily capture an audio or video recording with your computer s built in webcam and post it anywhere in Moodlerooms where you can type a message. Add some life to your course material! Personalised Learning Designer: Depending on your interaction with a course, you ll receive personalised attention to meet your needs. Whether you need extra help or are ahead of the curve, the personalised learning designer will help you get the most out of every course you re enrolled in.
ADMINISTRATION FEATURES Moodlerooms features will allow you to integrate your administrative systems and track and meet performance standards. Comparison Reports: With Moodlerooms, you can track performance and activity to determine what programs, courses and content pieces are most effective, while comparing student, class and course success rates. How, you ask? With reporting, use notifications and role-based access, you ll have access to all of the information you need. Conduit: Conduit makes the process of rolling over courses and managing drop/adds each term faster and easier. Administrators can automate user and course management tasks such as enrolling users, authenticating passwords, and reusing courses with a course templating feature. SIS Integration: With Moodlerooms, you can automate enrollments and get a full, 360 degree view of your students by integrating with industry-standard SIS systems. Connected Institution: Your whole campus or organisation can be connected with Moodlerooms while giving each department the ability to conduct learning in a manner that fits. Disaster Recovery: We ve got you covered. With an active contingency site and disaster recovery plan, we provide fail-safe data backups in the event of a catastrophic event or large-scale outage. Course Conversion: Coming from another LMS? We can convert your existing courses so you don t lose the work you ve already put in. These are some of the features and services available from Moodlerooms - to learn more about how you can deliver a better Moodle experience to aid your teaching and learning please contact us. If you would like a FREE demo then please click here.